Actualized Poems

You Look Happy

...“You look happy.” 

It wasn’t a compliment, nor was it truly an observation. It did not fall from his tongue with ease, it clung to his very being like a toxin that could not be purged. It was an a...
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Categories: actualized, change, conflict, freedom, goodbye,
Form: Prose

AI, A CURSE OR A BLESSING?

...Could a blessing be a curse?
In the devil's hands, it's worse!

AI, a tool of boundless might,
Ensures our tasks are done just right.

Yet intellects tremble, not quite steady,
To steer this s...
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Categories: actualized, art,
Form: Rhyme


Trumpeting and mythologizing deranged deplorable basket case as demigod

...Trumpeting and mythologizing deranged deplorable basket case as demigod

Any idea regarding who unnamed individual earned such lofty title? I offer a clue, that averred person unknown to many other...
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Categories: actualized, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Mein kampf synonymous as a blooper

...Mein kampf synonymous as a blooper

Writer of these words,
a former Lower Providence inhabitant,
who dwelled within darkest depths
of Dante Alighieri's inferno
for most of his outlandish, impis...
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Categories: actualized, 12th grade, abuse, adventure,
Form: Free verse

Unalloyed

...Forever ignored in the confines of your void,
yet my prayers persist undeterred; unalloyed.
I smile knowing I've actualized the test once more;
the realm of my dreams, a canvas to your lore.

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Categories: actualized, appreciation, blessing, creation, dark,
Form: Free verse


Lamenting Life Lost Before Mine Untimely Death

...Lamenting life lost before mine untimely death

Last rays of wicked flickering candlelight
even to this present day 
(October 4th, 2023)
lxiv anniversaries marking birth
emotions of ambivalence...
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Categories: actualized, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNo One Knows

...The reign of death will last as long as time
when my last fruit changes into wormwood
the death of life is not misunderstood
when candles lit will cause the bells to chime
silent in death's repos...
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Categories: actualized, death,
Form: Sonnet

Clearly, It's Complicated

...Pour every second and every ounce,
Into a reality that cannot be actualized.
Try your hardest and go the mile; 
You will be told it is not enough.

It's hard to find any solace in this world;
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Categories: actualized, best friend, boyfriend, flower,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOur Souls' Wishes and the Hierarchy of Needs

...There was a man named Maslow, who designed
a hierarchy of needs for every soul.
Foremost are the physiological.
Without food, water or sleep, we can’t be whole.

The other major needs are in thi...
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Categories: actualized, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFirst Step Toward Enlightenment

...In order to fully realize and activate your inner child
You must put your minds aside
Your reptilian mind and your cognitive mind
If you want to be fully self-actualized and enlightened

I stare...
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Categories: actualized, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Seeking Peace

...trying to unwind
allow time to pass by
peacefully blind.
a need to breathe out overcomes me,
need to free the rock inside me
push and pull whispering please
I need to breathe.
To Breathe easy....
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Categories: actualized, journey, solitude,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNot Actualized Enough Yet

...She lived her truth
Not second guessing herself
Until someone she admired said the wrong thing

Was she arrogant or assertive?
Confident or convoluted?
She tried to be herself again

But reta...
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Categories: actualized, woman,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberL O V E

...L O V E
—————
Love…
Crosses walls-
Invites the vines-
Joins the harvest toil-
Stays, Faithful-
Speaks the ineffable-
Increases-
Offers its fruit-
Swells within-
Embroiders tapestries-
Wil...
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Categories: actualized, blessing, creation, inspiration, peace,
Form: Didactic

Premium MemberPorcupine and Porpoise

...Porcupine fell in love with Porpoise today.
Protective quills ready at the stay.
Porpoise dove down with his blunt snout.
Porcupine smiled; in love with the lout.

It can never be actualized Por...
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Categories: actualized, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMind Over Matter

...MIND
thoughtful, attentive
thinking, meditating, feeling
imagination, brain; substance, material
reading, troubling, occupying
actualized, tangible
MATTER

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Categories: actualized, perspective,
Form: Diamante

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